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We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.
God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.
If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.
Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.
Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.
The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.
Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.
Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. Amen.
My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.
For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.
Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.
Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.
Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.
‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.
The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.
For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.
We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.
I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.
The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.
You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.
I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.
When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.
You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.
The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.
Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you.
Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.
If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.
We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.
Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.
Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.
Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.